[Will Kruger]

does compressor encode CBR? I haven’t found a setting. Or, do i need to find the setting in BitVice Helper?

[Will Kruger]

Here’s what i did:

with a completed sequence in FCP I exported using compressor…changed the video output to MPEG2, extension m2v, under quality/mode i chose one pass, added aiff audio, and exported to batch. When completed: I opened up BitVice, converted audio to mp2, then multiplexed the file. I transfered the multiplexed mpg file to our ad systems computer, and for some reason this 60 second commercial is recognized as a 33 second commercial. I was told that it’s because it was encoded at VBR.

Thoughts?

[Will Kruger]

Thanks a bunch for the information…I was able to sucessfully encode to an mpg format that works with our ad systems. However, it looks to me like the file created is a VBR file. Is there a setting to encode in Constant Bit Rate? The problem is that the encoded commercial shows up as a different length in our ad systems computer which screws up traffic. On the lighter side…the quality is imensely better than the previous way we encoded commercials! Thanks!!

-Will Kruger